Melbourne
Background
Melbourne (pronounced /ˈmel.bən/) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3.7 million (2006 estimate). Located in the country's south-east, Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and is home to over 70% of all Victorians.
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...Jan 7 (IANS) Australian Open tennis tournament director Craig Tiley is confident that defending champion Maria Sharapova of Russia will play this year. Tiley said Sharapova would be at Melbourne Park, despite having played just one match since July because...
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Newstrack India
MELBOURNE A student is headed to the hospital with a head injury after being struck by a car on the way to school, officials said.
The accident happened about 8:45 a.m. on Aurora Road near Stewart Avenue, officials said. Paramedics responded to the
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Florida Today
...year, down from 19 per cent in 2008. The data also shows that the number of students wanting to study at Monash University, Melbourne's cross-town competitor, has increased. Last year 12,186 students or 20 per cent of all applications put Monash as their first...
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The Age
...Australian appearance a year ago at Melbourne Park he was the charismatic bolter, the unexpected story of the Open, as Marcos Baghdatis had been in 2006. Yesterday, Tsonga almost had a new title: Second Big Seed To Fall In As Many Days. The world No. 7 was...
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The Age
MELBOURNE Eight alleged victims of a former Izard County teacher charged with sex-related offenses involving students testified Tuesday that they did not immediately go to authorities because they trusted the teacher or were embarrassed about what had
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Baxter Bulletin
Flying Fifteen Pre-Worlds…
Maf Smith of Holy Loch Sailing Club is currently in Melbourne with his Windebank Classic Flying Fifteen. They are gearing up for the 2009 Flying Fifteen World Championships by dominating the Australian nationals in the
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Sailing News For Sailors
...is updated weekdays from 6:30 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. for highway information in Brevard County and around the theme park areas of Orlando. Melbourne police are conducting a traffic enforcement detail in the area of Eau Gallie Boulevard and Croton Road in...
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Florida Today
Sick of listening to those limited radio channels while driving? Well, now you can have access to 30,000 stations including online broadcasts and AM and FM stations from around the globe-thanks to Aussie researchers who have developed the world's first
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Webindia123
Ben kept a blog of his visit!
12.23.08-12.24.08
My trip to Australia literally got off to a scorching start as I woke up to leave from East Lansing. I had been working in lab the previous day and had managed to give myself a sunburn from standing over
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Travel Blog
...to listen to your body when it's telling you to slow down," he said. Melbourne, Jan 7 : Recovering from ankle surgery, Brett Lee feels that he can't take the workload he took last year but he is confident of crossing the 400-wicket milestone in Tests....
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New Kerala
Last Week - About Melbourne
...historic victories. There is plenty of pedigree in their coaching set-up, which is led by Mickey Arthur and also features Duncan Fletcher in a consultancy role. This may explain why the customised fields that Smith set for each Australian batsman had such...
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Calcutta Telegraph
...hypothermia. Police say they are pleased with the behaviour of crowds across Victoria. Superintendent Trevor Parks from Victoria Police says although some arrests were made, there were no major incidents. "Actually Victoria police are very happy with the crowd...
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ABC Online
...lose patience, chase one and nick it to the wicketkeeper or slip. They need to be able to bowl a hostile spell, as Merv Hughes and McGrath did." Warne, 39, admitted the Australians had been outplayed by South Africa in the series so far, but insisted they...
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The Independent
...small communications company in Melbourne is starting to make some noise by inking new deals with municipalities for its emergency alert system. ViaRadio Corp. at 3152 Skyway Circle has a number of deals, including with school districts in Brevard and Leon...
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Florida Today
...said. "It just highlights the point that, you know, particularly at the start of the new year, just implore people to take extra care on the road." Earlier, a man aged in his forties died when his motorcycle crashed into a pole at St Kilda in Melbourne....
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ABC Online
...of Mildura, also 19, became lost on Monday while trying to walk to the Falls music festival at Lorne. Police, SES volunteers and Victorian park rangers have spent the past few days searching for the pair and this morning they were found by a police helicopter. They...
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ABC Online
...when he succumbed to blood loss and went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics were unable to revive him. Two men were killed near Geelong in the state's south-west, and a motorcyclist was killed earlier this morning in St Kilda. Police Acting Sgt Mark Gray said...
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Herald Sun
...settled first in Melbourne, but decided to move to Adelaide in April 2008. The victim, Malaika Mukandale, originally from Burundi, was asleep in the early hours of New Year's Day when the fire broke out. It destroyed two top floor units of the block in Anzac...
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ABC Online
...Warne has celebrated the New Year with his ex-wife Simone and three children at a holiday house south of Melbourne, adding fuel to speculation the couple has reunited yet again. Warne was spotted outside his former partner's holiday hideaway yesterday only...
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Adelaide Now
... Posted: Jan 01, 2009 at 1354 hrs IST Melbourne: Former coach John Buchanan refused to buy the simplistic argument of Australia facing a transitional period for the team's ongoing woes and said the tumble from the perch was due to systemic...
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Expressindia.com
Last Month - About Melbourne
...is no question cricket in India needs to go ahead: Buchanan CA not bothered about players in the ‘rebel’ ICL, says Jimmy Maher Melbourne: Mumbai terror attacks have sent jitter waves across the world but members of non-Asian cricket fraternity are not yet...
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The Hindu
...workers are crammed into an unsafe, stressful, unhygienic call centre environment, monitored by a video camera on the wall from Sydney. If asked where they are calling from workers are told to lie and say they are calling from Paddington, Sydney. The outsourced...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
...have released an image of a suspected firebug wanted over a fire in the Dandenong Ranges National Park on Melbourne's outer-eastern fringe. The man, said to be about 60, was seen using small pieces of cardboard to fuel a fire in a bush last Friday. A witness...
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The Age
...Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has dismissed suggestions that the world champions were after more money and less work, insisting that players are only concerned about their careers being cut short due to too much cricket. Players are negotiating their...
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Calcutta Telegraph
...Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has dismissed suggestions that the World champion was after more money and less work, insisting that players are only concerned about their careers being cut short due to too much cricket. Players are negotiating their...
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The Hindu
...prime ministers Sir Edmund Barton, Ben Chifley, Billy Hughes and Sir Robert Menzies, military leaders John Monash, Douglas Macarthur, Louis Mountbatten and author Mark Twain, artist Sir Russell Drysdale and politician Dame Enid Lyons. Tim Fischer at the ABC...
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The Border Mail
...it is very difficult to find a window that suits everyone,” a Cricket Australia spokesman was quoted as saying in the Herald Sun. Indian Premier League winner Rajasthan Royals and runner-up Chennai Super Kings will represent India in the event. — PTI ...
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The Hindu
...seen standing next to a small fire in a bush and fuelling it with small pieces of cardboard in the Dandenong Ranges National Park in Montrose last Friday. Another man walking along a track saw the suspected fire-bug and challenged him before the suspect ran...
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NEWS.com.au
...tennis legend Ken Rosewall. It comes eight years after the Olympic Park Tennis Centre opened and eight years after Rod Laver was so honoured at Melbourne Park. “It's quite an honour to think that this famous Sydney court will have my name on it,” Rosewall,...
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The Australian
...attend Hurstbridge Primary School's coming Grade 6 graduation and end-of-year assembly. Police were called to the school in Melbourne's northeast earlier this month after parents allegedly threatened a teacher with physical and verbal assault, the Herald...
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Herald Sun